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Summary

Hope at hand is a nonprofit organization providing poetry and art classes to affected

youths who are at risk of being drug felons, alcoholics, drug addicts, hurt, facing domestic

violence, jails, and homelessness. The organization helps them by making their hopes a reality

by partnering with many organizations to achieve their teaching goals, offering experiences, and

increasing community building. The organization uses poetry, art, and therapeutic approaches to

provide healing and individual development for children and youths. People live with pain,

anger, and suffering in the streets, jails, and homes, some seeking revenge and some wanting to

end their lives. They have a new group of girls castellated where girls have never seen colors for

a long time. They are working with elementary teachers and high school facilitators to help

children and youths learn. The organization is pushing into the community to find those groups

and people who need some extra help. 

Main Points

 Through poetry, people get healed from their pains and addictions, violence, and

suffering.
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 Poetry has a very powerful way of people dealing with pain and anger.

 Poetry lifts suffering to a higher plane of regard, and it makes it matter to us so much

more. 

 The organization always includes poetry that participants write because they tell a story

better than they can.

 People are coming from tough places, and they need help. 

 The organization responds positively to all places it has visited. 

 The organization participates in reading books and health therapist techniques.

 They use colors, crayons, paints, and music to change themes. 

 The teens connect very quickly with elementary teachers. 

 The new group for high school girls wanted to change the school's culture, empowering

ladies and self-esteem. 

 The organization started by pushing into the community and finding people who needed

help. 

Reaction

The Hope at Hand organization seems to bring a solution to most suffering and hurt

young men and women in society. The Director of the organization, Steffani Fletcher's effort to

go and run poetry, helped shape the organization's aims. Poetry can be used as a weapon in our

society in fighting our sufferings and pain as Alyssa Beck say that through poetry, she was able

to heal from her hurts and pains (Stanley & Nile, 1840). People's willingness to express their

sufferings and pain clearly shows that we need to go into the community and help others as

Steffani Fletcher did. However, we cannot fight this alone. We need government support and

more organizations coming together to support this initiative. 

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Application and Favorite Quotes

From the knowledge and experience I gained from these videos, I do not need many

resources to bring to society. I can start by writing poems and post them on my social media

platforms; maybe the information shared can help somebody who is struggling out there

(Stanley, 1143). I can also start an initiative with my colleagues to empower some youths in our

society who need help. I can also read more books, more poems, and health therapy to get more

information on how to change my community's suffering youths (Stanley & Nile, 1845). My

favorite quotes in the videos were: "I used to be ruthless, but now I am empathetic, I always

wanted to be loved, but I never loved myself, I can't change the past, but I can make a brighter

future, I never did any good, but I must show the world that I have changed" and "Nothing and

no one is worth my peace, love, and happiness.'

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Works Cited

Stanley, Nile V. and Fletcher, Steffani, "Optimizing Underserved Youth’s Potential by Building

Community Partnerships through Poetry and Art" (2021). National Youth-At-Risk

Conference. 71.

Stanley, N. (2020). Poetry and media for improving upper elementary African American science

learning. Under review, Journal of Poetry Therapy.